[PTSD] Moral injury -> PTSD is not necessarily part of being victimized, but is most often accompanied by the individual feeling like their choices were limited and they were frozen ->
Such as having their choice or ability to make choices removed and is accompanied with a recurring feeling of being frozen in time. So even though some people in traumatic situations kill another person or in the case of Elizabeth Smart for example, make choices to survive that others think prolonged the suffering ->
These people recover quicker without extremely long lasting PTSD because they are cognizant of their choices and do not feel as disempowered as others
I bring this up because I was going to write a VA story and I was getting all these post WW2 Nazi occupation books for dealing with the PTSD / recovery of a country and then well 
now we are in the occupation instead
now we are in the occupation instead
A Review of PTSD and Current Treatment StrategiesIt is a lot easier to prevent than treat after the fact
PTSD: An Unconscious Choice to Stay Alive
I am begging everyone to start making cognizant choices of who you are, who you want to be, what you value, and what choices you are able to make: big or small. Do NOT forget your power, do not capitulate, and do everything in your capacity to help others in need wheresoever you can. And if you can't? It's ok. small ripples still really really matter,
I promise
In Boston right now we are doing the opposite of letting ICE trample. They are straight up tracking, hunting, and stalking the fuck out of ICE. (Peacefully!) I'm pretty proud. We threw a revolution over a 3% tariff I am pretty sure people aren't having a 15%.
Fascism doesn't want you to think of a future. It depends on thinking you cannot think beyond right here right now; and this is NOT coincidence for a necessity to creating PTSD (everything is NOW; creating the time-freeze, reliving effect.)
Think of the best possible future you can't even really imagine, but want. Work towards helping others achieve it.
You are not small, you are mighty. You are not frozen, you are strong. You are a survivor, and are living an epic center stage saga even if very very reluctantly.
It's hard to remember that
It is. So create an affirmation to remind yourself and others -- in my case I can't tell myself, I have to tell everyone else and then in so doing I internalize it. 
It's like protecting. I'll divebomb to save others every time but I can't protect myself at all I just have to let them protect me knowing that I'd do the same for them etc.
It's like protecting. I'll divebomb to save others every time but I can't protect myself at all I just have to let them protect me knowing that I'd do the same for them etc.
Semi-related they found Match-3, Tetris, and REM- (Rapid Eye-Movement) videogames very very helpful in navigating / mitigating existing PTSD symptoms
You know how if you play it a long time you "see" it after you lay down and close your eyes? Any game that does that helps rewire the part of the brain that gets stuck
Gets it moving, connecting something else and moving on
Not quite Hakuna Matata but an even healthier version
Gives you space to heal and be YOU and enough distance to start reconstructing a future